Review by Steve Bennett

This low-budget, low-expectations revue-style double act is the most flyweight of comedies.

The likeable double act of Anthony Menchetti and Damian Clark promise to help you through a range of social situations with this Dummies' guide to avoiding embarrassment.

But it's all low-rent observational stuff, with too few original angles or decent ideas to really engage.

One of the early chapters - introduced with cheesy but fun jingle - concerning phone call etiquette shoehorns unfunny lines to fit a bland structure. And when they try to improvise around it, the limit of their abilities is revealed.

Mostly it's similarly undemanding stuff, rising no higher than mildly amusing.

And the only truly impressive part of the show wasn't comedy, but a mindreading trick, the effectiveness of which was diminished by the 'funny' sketch around it.

There's one good dating trip, and a decent enough song based around the 'she was only a farmer's daughter' type of pun-riddled comedy.

But mostly this dull humour will teach you less about the art of schmoozing, and more about the art of snoozing.

Review date: 1 Jan 2002
Reviewed by: Steve Bennett